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CUSPIDOR HOLDER AND CLEANER.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS TESSIER AND JOSEPH TESSIER, OF FITOI-IBURG, MASSACHUSETTS.

CUSPIDOR HOLDER AND CLEANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 691 ,415, dated January 21, 1902.

Application filed February 7, 1901. Serial No. 46,287. (ModeL) To (all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, LOUIS TESSIER, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and JOSEPH TEssIER, a citizen of the United States of America, both residing at Fitchburg, county of XVorcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in O'uspidor- Holders and Cleaners; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to improvements in cuspidor holders and cleaners; and the primary object of the invention is to provide a simple implement which may be easily and quickly adjusted for service as a means for carrying one or more cuspidors from a room or apartment to a place where they may be conveniently cleansed.

A further object of the invention is to so construct the implement that its members may be used as a means for clamping a cloth or other fibrous substance for the purpose of using the same as a mop in cleansinga cuspidor or the floor.

A further object of the invention is to provide the implement with a brush adapted to be disposed in compact relation to the article when it is not desired to use said brush; but when the brush is to be brought into service it may be easily and quickly extended to an operative position beyond the implement, thus enabling the brush to be thrust into a cuspidor for cleaning the same, after which the brush may be washed and be adjusted into compact relation to the article and to be housed or contained within the handle thereof.

With these ends in view the invention consists in the novel combination of devices and in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings hereto annexed, forming a part of this specification, Figure l is a perspective view of our implement adapted for use as a holder in carrying one or a stack of Fig. 2 is a plan View of the im plement adjusted to the position shown by Fig. l and with the cuspidor removed therefrom. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the implement having its members adjusted for service as a mop clamp or holder. Fig. 4: is a plan view of the implement, illustrating the brush extended for service. Fig. 5 is a transverse section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 4.

The same numerals of reference denote like parts in each figure of the drawings.

Our improved implement consists of the members 5 6, each having a bowed portion 7, the straight arm 8, and the inwardly-extending arm or crank 9. The arms or cranks 9 of the members are loosely connected together by the interlocking eyes or loops l0, and said members may be adjusted to assume the position shown by Figs. 1 and 2, so that the bowed portions 7 thereof will lie reversely to each other. In making each member 5 or 6 We take a single piece of stout wire and bend the same to form the arms 8 9, the bow 7,'and the shank or handle, the latter consisting of two strands of wire bent into an elongated loop and having the free end brought back and curved into overlapping relation to the bow 7. The end portion of the shank forming a portion of the member 6 is securely attached to a plate 11, which is externally screw-threaded and adapted to form the head of a suitable receptacle 12, which servesa twofold purpose, in that it constitutes a handle for the implement and a casing or inclosure for the brush, to be hereinafter described, said casing having detachable screw-threaded connection with the disk or head.

The shank or handle of the member 5 may be adjusted to lap the shank or handle of the member 6 when said members are turned to the opposing or parallel positions represented by Figs. 2 and 3; but in either adjustment of the member 5 relative to the member 6 the former is adapted to engage with a catch 13, the same serving to hold the two members against accidental separation when the implement is used either as a carrier for a cuspidor or as a clamp for a mop.

l4 designates the brush, consisting of asuitable head or body and a plurality of groups of bristles arranged in any preferred order on the head. Said brushis secured firmly to a stem 15, which is fitted loosely or slidably in an opening 16 of the head or disk, the other end of said stem being securely attached to a cross-head 16. Said cross-head is grooved or curved at its end portions, as at 17, so as to slidably embrace the strands or wires form: ing the shank of the member 6. (See Figs. 4 and 5.) The cross-head may easily be adjusted in the shank of the member 6 so as to project the stem and brush beyond the implement for any suitable distance, or said cross-head may be moved along the shank of the member 6 toward the bowed portion 7 thereof, thereby adjusting the brush 14 in close relation to the head 11 in order that the casing 12 may be'screwed to the head in a position to entirely house and conceal the brush.

When the brush is retracted to the position shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the cross-head engages frictionally with the detaining-spring 18, the latter being suitably secured to the member 6 and disposed in the path of the cross-head for engagement automatically therewith when it is adjusted toward the bowed portion 7 of the member. On adjust ing the stem 15 to project the brush to its working position the cross-head is drawn along the shank of the member 6 until it lies next to the head 11, at which time said crosshead is engaged by a locking-snap 19, the

same serving to hold the cross-head against. slidable movement during the period'of using the brush.

To use the implement as a means for carrying a cuspidor, the members 5 and 6 are separated laterally, owing to the loose connection afforded by the interlocking eyes 10, thus opening the bowed portions 7 and the members sufficiently for the implement to be adj usted around the contracted portion of a cuspidor, after which the members are brought together in a manner to engage with the cuspidor, as shown by Fig. 1, and to bring the shank of the member 5 in lapping relation to the shank of the member 6, so that the shanks of the two members maybe engaged and held in the hand when carrying the cuspidor from one place to another. Under this adjustment of the members the catch 13 may engage with the member 5, so as to hold the members against accidental separation. Itis evident that one, two, or more cuspidors may be stacked upon the cuspidor which is engaged by the holder, and thus quitea number of cuspidors can be carried to .the place for cleansing the same.

To use the implement as a mop-holder, the member 5 is turned over upon the loose connection aflorded by the interlocking eyes, so as to bring its short arm 9 over and upon the corresponding arm 9 of the other member 6. The member 5 is then depressed under or beneath the member 6 in a position for the arms 8 to lie parallel, or substantially so, as represented by Fig. 4, and then the member 5 is pressed upwardly toward the member 6 in order that the free end of said member 5 may engage with the hook 13. The arms 8 of the two members are adapted to receive the cloth or mop, as shown by Fig. 3, in order to securely hold the mop confined in the implement, and thus the holder may be used as a means for manipulating a mop in cleaning the floor or in wiping out a cuspidor.

Changes within the scope of the appended claims may be made in the form and proportion of some of the parts while their essential features are retained and the spirit of the invention is'embodied. Hence we do not desire to be limited to the precise form of all the parts as shown, reserving the right to vary therefrom.

Having thusdesc'ribcd our invention, what we claim as new is-- I 1. An article of the class described comprising two members having the bowed portions and the straight arms, each member consisting of a single rod or wire and said arms being connected loosely together by interlocking eyes, whereby the members may be adjusted to reverse positions, or in parallel relation, to serve as a means for carrying a cuspidor and as a clamp for a mop, respectively, substantially as described.

2. An article of the class described comprising two members, each having a bowed portion, a straight arm, and a cranked arm, and said cranked arms of the members loosely connected together, and a fastener on one member and in position for engagement by the other member in either of two positions which the members may occupy relatively to the other, as set forth.

3. An article of the class described comprising members loosely connected together, a brush, an adjustable stem having the'brush attached thereto and slidably fitted to one member, and means for inclosing said brush, substantially as described.

4. An article of the class described comprising the members attached together, a stem provided with a cross-head, and a brush at tached to the stem, said brush and stem adapted to be projected into operative position beyond the members, substantially as described.

5. An article of the class described comprising members, a rod or stem havingslidable connection with one member, a brush connected to the stem, and means for retaining said'brush in its adjusted position, substantially as described.

In witness whereof We have hereunto set our hands in the presence of two witnesses.

LOUIS TESSIER, JQSEPH TESSIER.

Witnesses:

JAMES H. MCMAHON, CHARLES H. MINNICH. 

